How about a little balance here?

How about Cockroach Week, Fly Week, Mosquito Week or Dust Mite Week?

Roaches and dust mites are a lot more significant to most people (whether they know it or not) than sharks could ever be, and flies and mosquitoes are vastly more lethal.

Mosquitoes kill over a million people (mostly children) every year (thanks to the boneheads that halted the eradication of malaria by erroneously demonizing DDT) and common flies and their biting cousins are responsible for much disease (ranging from typhoid and cholera to bird flu) and misery.

As for the common cockroach:

“Cockroaches have been found to be mechanical carriers of many diseases including staphylococcus, Escherichia coli (E. Coli), Salmonella food poisoning, and streptococcus. They carry bacteria around on their legs, and bodies. Pathogenic bacteria have also been identified in the feces of cockroaches.”

While dust mites don’t appear to be a significant disease vector, at least 10% of the population is allergic to them, resulting in 600 million people on the planet who get a substandard night’s sleep.

So enough of the sharks already.